This made me wonder: What else is not art? Art itself has always been extremely difficult to define. Marcel Duchamp decided that the only reliable definition was anything made by man. In an era when, thanks largely to Duchamp, almost anything can be art, it’s even more difficult to say what’s not art.

This gave me the idea for the second show at Vogue’s Gallery. It would be called, “What Is Not Art?” I asked Baldessari to define what is not art, since he started the whole thing, and if he’d be the curator. He agreed, and wrote me the following email:

WHAT IS NOT ART1 “WHAT IS NOT ART” IS NOT ART SINCE IT’S A TRITE IDEA.2 LISTS LIKE THESE BECAUSE ANYTHING CAN BE ART.3 ARTISTS AS ART SINCE ARTISTS ARE DUMB.

Well and good, but could he give me his choice of what he’d like to include in the show? “Anything by Bernard Buffet—you choose,” he said. When I pressed him for other artists, he said, “You can’t beat Bernard Buffet. He’s the best at being the worst.” Here, then, is the show.